All posts tagged: Christianity

If you’re a novice when you get into the writing business (or any other kind for that matter), one mistake you may make is, to believe in overnight success. Overnight success of a book, movie or song, is a very rare phenomenon. In fact, I, personally, believe there’s no such thing. Because every “overnight” success has a story behind it. Much work had already been done in the past leading up that successful front that you now see. Nothing good and lasting appears out of thin air. It has to be in the works for a while, and when it has fully matured, it is then able to stand on its feet. That being said, it’s starkly unbelievable the number of people that start out to achieve a dream, and then abandon it along the way because they’re not aware that the road to success is hard work. TV has made people believe in delusions that aren’t true or realistic. So when a person faces odds and adversity, they believe the forces working against them …

There are those times in your Christian walk when it seems you’re so sure of all the answers, you know where you’re going, and you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be—life couldn’t be better, you believe. In fact, how do non-Christians exist outside this awesome faith in God that has gifted you with such a blessed life, you ask. Then, there are those days when the more you think about the questions of life, the more the answers elude you. You realize you don’t know as much as you thought you did. The very principles that stood as the foundation of your faith and protected the world you live in are falling apart right before your eyes and, you’re more confused and frustrated than ever before. Besides, where’s that breakthrough you were so darn sure was just around the corner anyway? Could it be that those things you believed aren’t true after all? And that the promises you heard God whisper to your spirit—the very ones that no one knows about, but you and God—were …